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US President Donald Trump will today sign an official Order guiding government offices to prescribe changes to a brief visa program used to convey foreign employees to the United States to fill high-skilled jobs.

In a briefing for journalists, senior administration officials said lax enforcement and numerous legal loopholes mean American workers and companies lose jobs and business to foreign competition, which hurts the USA economy.

The president is scheduled to sign the two-part order - Buy American and Hire American - after delivering remarks at a tool manufacturing company in Wisconsin Tuesday.

The order, which he is expected to sign at an event in Wisconsin today, will strictly enforce "laws governing entry into the United States of labor from overseas for the stated goal of creating higher wages and higher employment rates for workers in the United States", according to a White House official.

The expected executive orderfalls far short of ending that program, but the administration officials argued on Monday that the changes Trump sought would radically change it.

Tuesday's executive order won't make immediate changes to the system, but will direct the Labor, Justice, Homeland Security and State departments to undertake a wholesale review of the H1-B visa program and to put forth recommendations that can be achieved administratively or through legislation. It would also give the Labor Department more power to investigate and sanction H-1B abuses and give "the best and brightest" foreign students studying in the US priority in getting H-1B visas.

Its centerpiece is the replacement of the H-1B lottery with a system that distributes visas on the basis of wages, skills and education.

But there are other, similar temporary worker visas that President Trump didn't mention, and isn't trying to curtail.

"Companies like Tata, Infosys, Cognizant will apply for a very large number of [H-1B] visas ... by putting extra tickets in the lottery raffle", the Trump administration official said. Generally, employers do not have to interview Americans before hiring foreigners for the US -based jobs.

"So if you change that current system that awards visas randomly without regard for skill or wage to a skills-based awarding, it makes it extremely hard to use the visa to replace or undercut American workers because you're not bringing in workers at beneath the market wage".

Senior administration officials say the order is effectively an initiation of a review by these departments of how the current visa waiver program is structured, rather than a call to take immediate, specific actions regarding the visa programs.

There's bipartisan agreement that the H-B1 program needs to be fixed, and critics say Trump could have simply directed federal departments to start recommending reforms, without issuing an executive order.

H-1B visas are given to temporary foreign workers sponsored by technology companies.

"Right now H-1B visas are awarded by random lottery and many of you will be surprised to know that about 80% of H-1B workers are paid less than the median wage in their fields".

But a majority of the visas are awarded to outsourcing firms, sparking criticism by sceptics who say those firms use the visas to fill lower-level IT jobs.

The officials said reform could first come through administrative changes, such as raising the visa application fees, adjusting the wage scale to more accurately reflect prevailing salaries in the tech industry, and more vigorously enforcing violations.

A library group is taking aim at Bill Cosby and a series of his children's books, because of criminal allegations against him. The majority of the top 10 most challenged books were banned due to LGBT themes and characters.

Dao remains in a Chicago hospital where he is undergoing treatment for injuries suffered during his removal from the plane. The department announced on Wednesday that two more officers have been placed on leave .

He hurt his knee late in that season, however, and never made it on the field last season after having surgery in the offseason. If Belichick is nearly certain the team will lose Butler, it makes sense to trade him prior to next week's draft.

Stephens also mentioned a woman's name and told Godwin, "She's the reason that this is about to happen to you". Police picked up the trail in a chase that lasted 2 miles before Stephens took his own life, authorities said.

The HTA also found there is not enough evidence to "reliably demonstrate" that e-cigarettes can actually help people quit. HIQA has recommended a prescription medicine called varenicline as the most effective intervention to tackle smoking.

It's time for the EU to hold Hungary to account for hollowing out the very principles and values of the union it's built on. It now has approximately 1,400 students and 370 faculty members from more than 130 countries and regions.

On Thursday, the Oklahoma State Department of Health announced that two people died from the flu between March 29 and April 4. This is the first pediatric death in Dallas County for the 2016-2017 flu season.

And she competed in Boston several more times, placing second in the women's race in 1975 with a time of 2:51, her personal best. The Boston Marathon, after all, has become the pinnacle of what most runners aspire to accomplish.

John Dorrian, a USA spokesman for the coalition, said the fight for western Mosul has been "difficult". Islamic State has used hundreds of vehicle bombs along with drones rigged with explosives in Mosul.

Overall revenues were flat at £1.3bn, while like-for-like sales edged up 0.9 per cent in the period. Online sales now represent 21.8 per cent of total sales.

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